Q: iPad Safari crashing regularly

Yes.

As I mentioned earlier, if you are using code from facebook's API, this may be causing the issue. See whether resetting network settings makes a difference. although what really makes a difference is flushing the dns cache.

also, google's public dns seems to be immune from this problem.

http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/

I've had the debug on for over a week now and I'm still having crashes every day. There doesn't seem to be a pattern or a particular site I visit that ALWAYS crashes it. For the record, I have no apps open when it happens, but I will have 3-4 tabs in Safari open. Prior to iOS 5 I'd have 9 pages open with no problem. Also I'm now finding that the USA Today app will immediately close when I open it, but then when I reopen it, it doesn't crash. That's a new thing.

Oh, and one last thing about the debug...I've had pages that would have 22 errors on a single page and it didn't crash. Not sure what that shows, just thought I'd throw that piece of info out there.

Have you tried a restore? Have you tried uninstalling USA Today?

Yes to the restore (and every other suggestion recommended here, including a trip to the local Apple store), and no to uninstalling USA Today. I guess I'm to the point that I know to expect the initial crash with USAT and I simply get it out of the way and carry on. I also have that mentality when using Safari. Until they fix it, it is what it is. When I get too frustrated, I use Opera...but that site is a little slower than Safari, so that's just a different annoyance. I figure you pick your battles...but what I mainly use my iPad for is reading and since my Kindle app doesn't crash, I'm good -- for the most part.

Back near the end of December, I visited the genius bar & posted what they suggested:

"I brought my crashing iPad 1 to the genius bar and they found nothing wrong when they ran diagnostics. They suggested I reboot it once a day, and also try resetting it and then syncing it again - but not from a backup. I'm thinking eventually there'll be an update that helps, because it's so clearly from the upgrade on the latest OS."

Just reporting back now to say I did exactly that with reset and sync, but it didn't help. Apps still crashing, mainly Safari but others too. I think the crashing is not as bad as what some of you experience, it's more an annoyance. Good thing I don't use the ipad for work, just for fun.

Well my ipad just crashed while trying to read this forum - how ironic (and frustrating) is that?

No doubt it will be fine if I upgrade to a shiny new ipad 2.....

"No doubt it will be fine if I upgrade to a shiny new ipad 2....."

Apparently not......others ipad2 users have same problem as us.

iPad 2 32GB, must have crashed 10 times today while trying to post on a forum using Safari.

Ended up having to switch to Atomic browser, Safari on 5.0.1 is just a POS.

It's not just the iPad 1.

Just shows how astute IT support people are! Boot it once a day???  By its very nature an average ipad probably gets booted >20 times per day in normal use.

My diag log is full of short of memory problems, it mainly happens in app store and itunes. So its probably the machine running out of both real and swap memory space; which points, in my mind after working with 30 years of OS's, to a problem with the way the OS handles paging.

So because it happens (occasionally) in Appstore I think its probably a more general problem than just Safari.  Ho hum lets see what's in 5.1................   Despite this it's still a lot better than waiting 5 mins for the monopolies laptop technology to boot!

I experience the same thing. But it started only after upgrading to iOS5. Before it almost never happened. No matter how many pictures or video data had to be uploaded. Facebook worked as well. I have a systems monitoring app and it seams to me as if the new iOS needs a lot more RAM now (for whatever hidden activity) .  This is quite annoying.

I wonder if there will be a cure for that. Maybe by stopping some "unnecessary" processes, that run in the background by default. Has anybody a idea or even experience with that?

This just started happening to me today. I'm not doing anything different than normal - i have as many safari pages open as possible, constantly bouncing back and forth between them and my notepad.

Suddenly, i'm getting randomly bounced off. Never been a problem in the past, shouldn't be a problem now.

It needs to be looked at.

I expect these machines to be multitasking.

I expect the best from Apple - i pay for the best.

Maybe we just need to turn the iPad off every once in a while. I did a reboot, and I'm waiting ...

If other apps besides Safari is crashing, and a restore didn't fix it, it points to hardware. Something is wrong with the flash chips inside the ipad, or some other hardware component. Please go back to the Apple store or call Apple and ask to speak with "Apple Customer Relations".

Thanks. Please report back.

It is also concievable that it really is a webkit problem in your case, though really really unlikely.